IUE-CWA ratifies GE contract nationally

General Electric Co.’s largest union, IUE-CWA, has ratified the new four-year contract the two sides negotiated on June 17.

IUE-CWA said today that 79 percent of its national members voted to approve the contract, which includes a 16.1 percent increase in wages over the life of the contract.

IUE-CWA is also the largest union at the GE Energy plant in Schenectady with 1,100 members. Workers there voted to approve the contract on Tuesday.

GE is expected to announce the national results of other union voting on the contract today. There are a total of 13 unions representing 20,000 GE workers nationwide, and IUE-CWA represents half of them.